Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: apple, macbook, iphone | Themes: Software, Laptops and Notebooks, Networking, Digital Entertainment, Business, Audio/Video Players, Business Notebooks
4. The MacBook Air
As you might expect, Steve Jobs kept Apple’s most impressive new piece of hardware for last: The MacBook Air. It’s a super slim, metallic notebook with a 13” screen, full size keyboard, LED based display, and optional solid state hard disk drive. Sounds a bit - actually a lot - like the notebook we predicted just last week.
To demonstrate just how slim the Macbook Air is, Jobs successfully slid it into a standard sized manila office envelope. It’s only 0.16 inches thick (or thin) at its thinnest point, and 0.76 inches at its thickest point. The MacBook Air also comes with a built in iSight video conferencing camera, and a trackpad so intelligent that it can understand not only clicks, but pinching, rotating, and swiping movements (for example, you can rotate a picture by holding down your thumb, and rotating your index finger around it on the trackpad).
The laptop ships with an impressive 2 GB of RAM (Apple’s first to do so), a standard 80 GB, 1.8 inch hard drive, with an option for a 64 GB solid state drive. Although the solid state drive has a smaller capacity, it will operate in complete silence, and have no moving parts to wear out and break.
Apple needed a thinner than usual mobile processor for the MacBook Air, so they asked hardware partner Intel to build one. Intel succeeded, coming up with a 60% smaller 1.6 GHz and 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, complete with of 4MB of L2 cache.
The MacBook Air will start shipping in 2 weeks, and will be available at a starting price of $1,799. Yes, it’s pricey, but it’s also impressive. And, at just 3 pounds, you’ll save a little on the shipping charge.
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The Macworld keynote closed on an interesting note with Academy Award winner Randy Newman performing on a black baby grand. Macworld coverage continues throughout the week on TomsGuide.com.
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So the iPod Touch update is $20? Since when do we have to pay for updates?
Yea, even the Zune was updated for free whats the deal Apple?
You're getting new functionality in the form of new applications, not bug fixes and such.
MacBook Air: the trackpad is nice, but no optical drive and no hard Ethernet plug... really?!
Well at least they are dropping there prices....even some of there Mac Pro systems are getting better prices....the lack of a DVD drive(if thats true)for that notebook kind of sucks.... The router NAS with 2.4 and 5 ghz is a nice touch....
still no word about 10.5.2 :-(
anybody heard anything?
Last time I checked it was illegal to charge one set of customers $20 and another set nothing. Shame on Apple.
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